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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451289203321

Autore

Hamilton Alastair <1941->

Titolo

The Copts and the West, 1439-1822 [[electronic resource] ] : the European discovery of the Egyptian church / / Alastair Hamilton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

1-281-15464-4

9786611154646

0-19-153718-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

Oxford-Warburg studies

Disciplina

281/.7209

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Egypt Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-313) and index.

Nota di contenuto

An ancient church -- Muslim domination -- The Council of Florence -- The first Jesuit mission -- New approaches -- Towards a Coptic Catholic Church -- The first steps -- Confessional clashes I -- Confessional clashes II -- Jansenists and Jesuits -- Protestants and the Enlightenment -- Athanasius Kircher and his shadow -- Grammars, dictionaries, and dialects -- Manuscript collecting -- Biblical studies.

Sommario/riassunto

This first full study of the subject discusses how 17C Catholic missionaries tried to force the Copts (Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria) into union with the Church of Rome, and the slow accumulation of knowledge of Coptic beliefs, undertaken by Catholics and Protestants. Includes a survey of the study of the Coptic language in the West. - ;In seventeenth-century Europe the Copts, or the Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria, were widely believed to hold the key to an ancient wisdom and an ancient theology. Their language was thought to lead to the deciphering of the hierogly